AFGHANISTAN: A MICROMANAGED MILITARY FOUGHT A MISMANAGED WAR AND LOST.

ICHEOKU says if after twenty years of blood and treasure the situation in Afghanistan was in such a mission-critical that a $700 million embassy building could not safely be occupied and operates, but has to be closed and abandoned and eventually will fall into ruins, what then have America been doing all the years of sojourning in Afghanistan. It shows that the Taliban was righteously disappointed and indignant that America stayed in their country, uninvited, for that long without any real achievement. They could not even secure their own embassy building and you wonder what else did they secure; and why American people are not rising up in protest on the streets and demanding that the frolic of the last twenty years be investigated and accounted for. 

American taxpayers deserve some answers and they should be asking to know what the two trillion dollars purchased and on what it was expended. How was the money disbursed and who got what, Afghanistan officials or their American counterparts? Over two thousand American lives and over twenty thousand injured Americans cannot just be swept under the rug and pretend as if nothing happened, especially when the amount of money spent to incur such a gargantuan loss is factored in. They had the superiority in manpower, weapons, equipments,  airplanes, logistics and all manners of other hi-tech gadgets and vision capabilities, yet they lost the war to a band of Taliban fighters. What happened? 

ICHEOKU says has come to the conclusion that too much civilian interference with war prosecution cost America the war in Afghanistan, period. The civilian wing of the Washington DC elite and political establishment purposely gummed the war effort in Afghanistan and misdirected its prosecution. Too much civilian involvement and near total control of the military is eroding the fighting abilities of the United States military as they not only start these wars but also micromanage its prosecution. This is causing the many not too stellar results of missions and in turn causing too many dissatisfaction in the military as the fighting men and women know that they can do it but not with their hands tied behind their backs. 

It is increasingly bleeding the morals of the men and women in uniform and also eroding the confidence in America by many international bodies and other countries which heavily relies on America to show the way. This evaporating confidence in America must be arrested quickly before it is too late, forcing these various interests to seek shelter of protection elsewhere, most likely China. It is acceptable that the military should be under the control of civilian leadership, but it should be to the extent of issuing a command but not how that command is carried out. It is what the military trains and lives to do every day, how to carry out the command. But to order them into war and still dictate how to fight the war is too intrusive and very demoralizing. It makes them look idiotic and that they don't know how to do their job.

How could an infantry with boots on the ground in a theater of war be required to first crosscheck with Washington DC or Florida or Virginia before moving on a cornered target? How could a fighter pilot over an enemy be required to ensure that no civilian, women and children will be killed by a dropped bomb? How can a band of brothers carrying out a raid of an enemy'e dwelling be required to make sure that only the "correct" enemies were killed and when unavoidable collateral damage results, is courtmartialed and sometimes imprisoned or fired? it is not as if they are not operating under a highly charged environment already, but their civilian minders prefer to add to their psychological payloads. 

Recall the incident that happened with Osama bin Laden who was cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora around December 2001. But instead of the summarily swooping in on him and capture or take him out, their rule of engagement required them to first seek clearance and get approval from the civilians in Washington DC before acting on the intelligence. When they did, they were ordered to step down and not proceed to deal with Osama bin Laden, allowing him to escape kill or capture so soon after 9/11 and you wonder why? The war would have ended right then in Tora Bora, but the Deep State Military Industrial Complex wanted to make money, hence the forever war began, resulting in the 20 years jamboree in Afghanistan. 

Now, America will also go down in history as another country which was defeated in Afghanistan, the other major two being the British Empire and the Union of Socialists Soviet Republic, largely now known as Russia. It was the same story line, they could not defeat Afghanistan and were forced into a humiliating withdrawal with their tails tucked in between their legs. But if only there was not a too constraining rules of engagement which hamstrung American fighting men and women, their own story of expedition in Afghanistan would have turned out differently. But their hands were tied by too many regulations; some, made up as they fought, which made it impossible for them to operate and no war could have been won under such circumstances.

The only way American military can start winning wars again is to let them do what they train and live for, fight like their lives depends on it. The First and Second Gulf wars were such wars where Generals Charles Albert Horner and Norman Schwarzkopf were allowed the liberties of being commanding generals and they delivered. Therefore going forward, the military should be allowed to do what they do best or don't send them into battle, especially for some of these needless egotistic wars such as to avenge one's father's image. Also many of these wars can be avoided if the draft is reintroduced in the military. With everyone having a full stake in the wars, including those war profiteering mongrels, wars will be seriously thought through before they are started. 

If they know that their own kits and kins could be sent into battle fronts, they will have a thorough circumspection to undergo before pulling the trigger of war declaration. But as long it is other peoples children and relatives that will be put in harms way and possibly brought back in body bags and America flag draped caskets, they will continue to be very cavalier in the manner they start wars, including in very distant lands with no particular national security interest or implication to America. They have upgraded wars as money minting endeavors for them, sort of business venture and they will only continue to salivate at any opportunity to make more money at the expense of American taxpayers. 

Imagine the impact all the resources wasted in Afghanistan would have had were it invested in America? It would have transformed America into the Dubai of the Western world, with a fully rebuilt, replaced and completely modernized infrastructure; possibly free tuition, free healthcare and possibly solve the homeless problem too. But no, the fat cats of DSMIC want the money in boatloads and only by American taxpayers spending them on expensive weapons and military hardwares will they make out like bandits through war profiteering. 

Thankfully, Joe Biden stayed his ground and brought the Afghanistan gallivanting to an end. The Deep State military industrial complex is not happy, they are seething and growling, and before too soon, another war might be started somewhere just to pacify them. Whether it will lead to a war with China, which will be a mother-load for weapons sales, nobody knows but it will definitely be a very costly adventure both in human and financial resources. It will also be the mother of all wars which America has ever engaged in as the forces will be nearly evenly matched, ferocity for ferocity. It will not be a case of an overmatched opponent struggling to put up some fight, but two strong powers going at each other and throwing everything into it to come out on tops, the proverbial two elephants. 

But the world will never allow such war between America and China to happen because it will literary destroy the world, economically. The two sides are the world's greatest powers, militarily and economically; and their engaging in a destructive war will not only stagnate their respective countries, but also strangle a world that is heavily dependent on them for their own survival. The grass will not allow itself to suffer such pain and agony and will therefore not allow the two elephants to fight. But the Deep State Military Industrial Complex is addicted to wars and they must have their fix, starting another war very soon. ICHEOKU says strongly believes that war between America and China is uploading.  #ReintroduceDraft.